Succotash Shut-In

Succotash Epi160: Chattin' AND Clippin'

Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast, was launched in 2011 with the idea of promoting comedy soundcasts in what was then a marketplace still trying to find its way. By featuring short clips of shows being produced by funny folks both known and unknown, we like to feel that we maybe had a little tiny, eeny weeny, itsy bitsy bit to do with helping to ignite the torch of soundcasts across the globe! (But then we've always had a rather high opinion of ourselves...)

Original show host and executive producer Marc Hershon, along with booth announcer Bill Heywatt, engineer/producer Joe Paulino, associate producer Tyson Saner, musical director Scott Carvey, and booth assistant Kenny Durgis have kept the flame alive o'er these many years. In 2018, Hershon abandoned the host chair and anointed Saner to the position, with nary a notice from the legions of listeners. Typical.

Yes, it’s me, Marc
Hershon. Host and haberdasher for Epi160 of Succotash, the
Comedy Soundcast Soundcast.It’s been a couple of weeks since we
last dropped a ‘sode. Apologies, but life gets busy. Suffice to say
we’re back.

And we’ve got a bit of a
mixed bag so it’s kind of half Succotash Clips and half
Succotash Chats this time around.

On the Clips
side we have a couple of snippets uploaded to us by soundcasters
themselves. A bit of a show called Nothing's Good and
another from a soundcast called Pretty
Gross.

Over in the
Chats department, I’ve got some interviews leftover from
the 6th Los Angeles Podcast Festival that took place I
nearly October. Chris Mancini, one of the
co-founders of the Podfest, Jonathan Sadowski and
Travis Clark from the Quick Question
soundcast, Murray Valeriano from the Road
Stories soundcast, and Chris Gore, who
stopped by and we did kind of a simulcast – the interview has
already been heard on his Film Threat
soundcast.

In addition, we have a
double dose of our Burst O’ Durst segment with political
comedian and social commentator Will Durst. Get
over to http://WillDurst.com to get a line on Durst Case
Scenario, his one man show that’s been extended, playing every
Tuesday night at the Marsh Theater in San Francisco. And also where
he’s headlining with his comedy stylings. Plus the Big Fat Year End
Kiss Off Show he does every year will be falling into place about
now, and you can get times and places where that will be up on his
homesite. You can also follow Will on Twitter @WillDurst and on
Facebook, too!

The whole shootin’ match
is brought to you by the good folks at Henderson’s
Pants, featuring their Turkey Trousers just in
time for Thanksgiving. Gobble 'em up!

SUCCOTASH LIVE AT
LAST

Before we get further
into this episode, I wanted to let you know that Succotash
will be having the first LIVE episode we’ve done since this year’s
San Francisco Sketchfest. It’s going to be at next year’s
Sketchfest, on Sunday, January 14th, 5:30 PM at Piano Fight in
downtown San Francisco. I’m not sure which guests we’ll have yet.
Waiting to see whose in town that weekend. But I will tell you this
– it may be the LAST episode of Succotash, at least in
it’s current form.

CLIPS

Nothing's
GoodWe heard from the
Nothing’s Good soundcast when a guy named
Adam direct-uploaded their premiere episode to our
Hightail link with this note: “Here's the first
episode of my podcast. It's a story telling podcast about messed up
things that have happened to you. Use whatever you'd like from it.”
There’s been about half dozen episodes since the one this clip came
from, entitled “Slimy Peaches”. And so far there’s not a lot of
information on their homesite. The About link reads: “Stories of
failure and regret, by the worlds foremost regrettable failures. A
storytelling podcast of things gone awry.”

Pretty
GrossGrabbing another clip out
of the Hightail direct upload bucket. This time we have
a chunk of a relatively new show, call Pretty Gross,
hosted by Alyssa and Kayla.
Here’s the note they included: “Hey there! Here's a clip from
Pretty Gross, episode 2, "Google It!: A Pretty Gross Halloween
Special." In it, Alyssa & Kayla talk about their recollections
of learning about womanhood, and how they don't want any of those
questions answered by their moms. Enjoy!”

That’s going to do it for
epi160 of Succotash, the Comedy Soundcast Soundcast. The
next installment is going to feature a bunch of clip from horror
and sci-fi movie soundcasts. Associate Producer Tyson
Saner and I had harvested like 10 clips which I was
going to use for aspecial show with the Monster Party
soundcast guys, but that never happened So before these clips pass
their expiration dates, I figured we better make use of them.
Until next time, thanks for passing the
Succotash.